US Patent Issued to Wacom on Sept. 1 for "Position indicator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,503, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Position indicator" was invented by Sadao Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position indicator includes a pen-shaped body; control circuitry housed in the pen-shaped body and configured to generate position detection signals and generate additional information about the position indicator; a first receiver; a second receiver different from the first receiver; a first transmitter provided near a distal end of the pen-shaped body and configured to transmit the position detection signals to a sensor of a position detection system; and a second trans...